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WOLS - (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze-Battmann) born 1913 Berlin - 1951, Paris; German painter and photographer. |
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| 1919 | Moved with his family to Dresden. |
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| 1932 | Went to Berlin to
apply to study at the Bauhaus. However, Moholy-Nagy
advised him to go to Paris. There he wrote, painted and
worked as a portrait photographer, becoming friends with
Ernst, Leger, Domela, Arp, Giacometti, and Ozenfant. |
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| 1937 | First major commission as official photographer at the Paris World Fair. | ||
| 1939 | Interned at the
outbreak of war. |
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| 1940 | Escaped and went
into hiding in Cassis near Marseille, where he did
drawings and watercolours. |
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| 1942 | Fled from the
Germans to Montelimar and met the writer H.-P. Roché,
who promoted him. |
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| 1945 | A first
exhibition of his watercolours at the Galerie Drouin was
a failure. Returned to Paris one year later. |
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| 1947 | Had sensational
success with an exhibition in the same gallery. Came to
know Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, who
promised to help him. Shared many artistic ideas with
Giacometti and Mathieu. |
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| 1955 | Participation in
documenta 1 in Kassel. |
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| 1964 | Participation in
documenta 3 in Kassel. |
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Inspired by Surrealist theories of psychic automatism, Wols produced many of his early drawings, watercolours and oil paintings under the influence of drugs and alcohol. Later, he used thick brush strokes and heavy impasto to create paintings with a relief structure, and sometimes inscribed lines and shapes into the paint. |
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